The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
Published on 23. February 2017
Book
Hardback
366 pages
978-90-04-32814-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together the leading experts in the history of European Oriental Studies. Their essays present a comprehensive history of the teaching and learning of Arabic in early modern Europe, covering a wide geographical area from southern to northern Europe and discussing the many ways and purposes for which the Arabic language was taught and studied by scholars, theologians, merchants, diplomats and prisoners. The contributions shed light on different methods and contents of language teaching in a variety of academic, scholarly and missionary contexts in the Protestant and the Roman Catholic world. But they also look beyond the institutional history of Arabic studies and consider the importance of alternative ways in which the study of Arabic was persued.
Contributors are Asaph Ben Tov, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Sonja Brentjes, Mordechai Feingold, Mercedes Garcia-Arenal, John-Paul A. Ghobrial, Aurelien Girard, Alastair Hamilton, Jan Loop, Nuria Martinez de Castilla Munoz, Simon Mills, Fernando Rodriguez Mediano, Bernd Roling, Arnoud Vrolijk.
This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.
Contributors are Asaph Ben Tov, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Sonja Brentjes, Mordechai Feingold, Mercedes Garcia-Arenal, John-Paul A. Ghobrial, Aurelien Girard, Alastair Hamilton, Jan Loop, Nuria Martinez de Castilla Munoz, Simon Mills, Fernando Rodriguez Mediano, Bernd Roling, Arnoud Vrolijk.
This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.
Reviews / Votes
"The resulting book is a well-edited testimony to the great progress made by scholars of early modern Orientalism since Johann Fueck's seminal 1955 monograph. It offers thirteen individual contributions preceded by a helpful and well-written introduction from Jan Loop and followed by a usable index. [...] it succeeds in both expanding the view to include the role of the wider networks of scholars, merchants and missionaries who pursued Arabic studies, incorporates the vital dimension of Arabic learnt on location in the Middle East, and gives us much new information about how the language was practically taught and learnt, as well as bringing to light understudied figures [...]. It should find a welcoming readership above all amongst scholars of early modern intellectual history, and especially of orientalism, as well as amongst those practitioners of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies who take a keen interest in their own Fachgeschite."James Weaver, University of Zurich in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung Volume 115, Issue 1 (2020).
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
649 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-32814-3 (9789004328143)
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Jan Loop, is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Kent and co-leader of the European Research Area project on Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship (EOS). He is the author of Johann Heinrich Hottinger. Arabic and Islamic Studies in the 17th Century (Oxford, 2013) as well as of several essays and articles on early modern intellectual and cultural history.
Alastair Hamilton, is the Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, Warburg Institute. His publications include The Copts and the West 1439-1822. The European Discovery of the Egyptian Church (Oxford, 2006), and, with Francis Richard, Andre Du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France (London and Oxford, 2004).
Charles Burnett is Professor of the History of Arabic/Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He is the leader of the Humanities in the European Research Area project on Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship (EOS). Among his books are The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England (1997), and Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and their Intellectual and Social Context (2009).
Alastair Hamilton, is the Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, Warburg Institute. His publications include The Copts and the West 1439-1822. The European Discovery of the Egyptian Church (Oxford, 2006), and, with Francis Richard, Andre Du Ryer and Oriental Studies in Seventeenth-Century France (London and Oxford, 2004).
Charles Burnett is Professor of the History of Arabic/Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London. He is the leader of the Humanities in the European Research Area project on Encounters with the Orient in Early Modern European Scholarship (EOS). Among his books are The Introduction of Arabic Learning into England (1997), and Arabic into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and their Intellectual and Social Context (2009).
Content
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Jan Loop
Arabic Studies in the Netherlands and the Prerequisite of Social Impact - a Survey
Arnoud Vrolijk
Learning Arabic in Early-Modern England
Mordechai Feingold
Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662) and Arabic Studies in Zwickau's Latin School
Asaph Ben-Tov
Arabia in the Light of the Midnight Sun: Arabic Studies in Sweden between Gustaf Peringer Lillieblad and Jonas Hallenberg
Bernd Roling
Sacred History, Sacred Languages: The Question of Arabic in Early Modern Spain
Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Fernando Rodriguez Mediano
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Salamanca in the Early Modern Period
Nuria Martinez-de-Castilla-Munoz
Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Rome: Shaping a Missionary Language
Aurelien Girard
The Qur'an as Chrestomathy in Early Modern Europe
Alastair Hamilton
Arabic Poetry as Teaching Material in Early Modern Grammars and Textbooks
Jan Loop
Learning to Write, Read and Speak Arabic Outside of Early Modern Universities
Sonja Brentjes
Learning Arabic in the Overseas Factories: The Case of the English
Simon Mills
Learning Oriental Languages in the Ottoman Empire: Johannes Heyman (1667-1737) between Izmir and Damascus
Maurits H. van den Boogert
The Life and Hard Times of Solomon Negri: An Arabic Teacher in Early Modern Europe
John-Paul Ghobrial
Short biographies of authors
Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Jan Loop
Arabic Studies in the Netherlands and the Prerequisite of Social Impact - a Survey
Arnoud Vrolijk
Learning Arabic in Early-Modern England
Mordechai Feingold
Johann Zechendorff (1580-1662) and Arabic Studies in Zwickau's Latin School
Asaph Ben-Tov
Arabia in the Light of the Midnight Sun: Arabic Studies in Sweden between Gustaf Peringer Lillieblad and Jonas Hallenberg
Bernd Roling
Sacred History, Sacred Languages: The Question of Arabic in Early Modern Spain
Mercedes Garcia-Arenal and Fernando Rodriguez Mediano
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Salamanca in the Early Modern Period
Nuria Martinez-de-Castilla-Munoz
Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Rome: Shaping a Missionary Language
Aurelien Girard
The Qur'an as Chrestomathy in Early Modern Europe
Alastair Hamilton
Arabic Poetry as Teaching Material in Early Modern Grammars and Textbooks
Jan Loop
Learning to Write, Read and Speak Arabic Outside of Early Modern Universities
Sonja Brentjes
Learning Arabic in the Overseas Factories: The Case of the English
Simon Mills
Learning Oriental Languages in the Ottoman Empire: Johannes Heyman (1667-1737) between Izmir and Damascus
Maurits H. van den Boogert
The Life and Hard Times of Solomon Negri: An Arabic Teacher in Early Modern Europe
John-Paul Ghobrial
Short biographies of authors
Index